i'm somewhere in rome
quite far from home
though many many miles apart
across the sea and into your heart
i send my love and wish for cheer
to abide with you from year to year
Copyright © Yolanda Nicholsen | Year Posted 2011
If I say I love you today
It doesn't mean I will love you
A little less
If you falter tomorrow
Don't hide behind the truth you think I can handle
Trust me enough to know I can handle your worst
Even if I can't;
Give me the chance to decide for myself
I might find a way to work through it
Instead of you being the primary decision maker
When we started this voyage
There were no guarantees
No signs that indicated
Smooth sailing
Every moment in our lives
Are painted with curves
The crooked lines can make you stronger
Or it can show you what to work on
Just don't pretend everything is perfect
One day the art of pretence
Will fight with reality
And that battle might in the end
Break everything you tried to keep together
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Copyright © Wilma Neels | Year Posted 2015
Rational Thinking
Rational thinking,
Wise to choose.
It's a little bit harder,
Nothing more for me to lose.
-Broken dreams.
-Broken hearts.
-Broken wings.
-My broken parts.
Rational thinking,
Wise to choose.
It's a little bit harder now,
Nothing more for me to lose.
I'm struggling harder,
Just to stay alive.
I'm struggling harder now,
Just to say goodbye.
Rational thinking,
Wise to choose.
It's a little bit harder now,
Nothing more for me to lose.
-Please come, fix me.
-Please, fix me now.
Rational thinking,
Wise to choose.
I'm struggling harder now,
Nothing more for me to lose.
Copyright © William Darnell Sr. | Year Posted 2013
Li Po, the Wanderer
Was appointed Court Poet
Yet left again in haste,
Preferring the bright noise of a waterfall
To the white noise of courtesans and kings.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2008
The valley was so green
To my love swept eyes,
And all that I now beheld,
Was so alive with life.
There seemed to be
Melodies of unknown
Origins, floating on
Air massaging my
Ears, pricking my heart.
And I would sit so full,
Knowing no pains of
Physical hunger, for my
Present state would not
Allow it to happen.
For my hunger was of
A different nature that
Could never be satisfied
But by the one who cast
Her spell on me.
For I would never again
Be satisfied, unless I
Became a part of the
Matrix of her heart.
I needed to taste of
the endless pleasures
Which I longed to explore
In the current timeshare,
That found my heart being
Cradled in her hands.
I could not move far
away from her side,
As the pleasures that
Her love brought to my
daydream, swept my
Love filled mind away.
And when I awakened,
My hunger was replaced
By a much stronger need...
To make her mine.
Copyright © Wendell Brown | Year Posted 2013
When the fragile moment of youth has departed
and age begins to cross my path,
I didn't want to acknowledge it !
Suddenly I grew thicker in the middle,
My eyes no longer focused.
My brows began to droop
and I had to pluck hair from new places.
Then I discovered I had a turtle neck
that I didn't have to buy.
My shoulders pained as I combed my hair.
My breasts found a new resting place.
My hips started carrying extra luggage,
and my legs dimpled as they led down to feet
that hinged on weak ankles.
My toes cramp and twist and swell
as though they have had enough.
When that fragile moment of youth departed
the burden of existence finally became a reality.
So...
I've gone ahead and drawn on the best brows.
I'm wearing the latest style glasses,
going to the hair dresser and donning pretty scarfs.
I've crossed my heart with Maiden Form
and am wearing longer skirts.
I now caress my legs with the finest silk
and dress my feet in comfort.
I've also placed a positive attitude within my brain
so it cannot escape,
because even within my thick skull my mind occasionally
loses its ability to recall yesterday.
And since life has more to offer I plan on taking it!
Copyright © Virginia Gelok | Year Posted 2021
She wasn't worth much
But I loved her I did
Like nothing I loved before
She was rusty and dusty
She didn't smell good
And had a dent in her passenger door
I was only sixteen
Thought I was cool
Driving around feeling badder than bad
The greatest feeling on earth
To have your own wheels
Even though she belonged to my dad
There was a tear in the front seat
And the radio was broke
It took a while to start
With a manual choke
She had a manual transmission
And the headlights were weak
She had a miss in the engine
And a slight oil leak
But I held up my head and felt like a star
Driving around in that rusty old car.
Kids don't seem to have love affairs with their vehicles anymore. This was a
black 1950 two door Ford coup. The memories were priceless.
Copyright © Vince Suzadail Jr. | Year Posted 2006
Southern Butterfly
The Green dill gave him a thrilll
Caterpillars born
Caterpillars gone
Dill eaten none remains now
Empty stems no chance
Copyright © Sara Kendrick | Year Posted 2009
Heaven's blustery winds
are under her sheets,
over the curvature, an arc
ripening our bodies moist,
grazing her trim bush,
upon my long brush,
and plum
is her berry.
Copyright © Sammy Shaq | Year Posted 2018
Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
My soft heart twitches with affliction.
Fleeing condemnation, I will go!
A cold man of science; is no show.
Obscene as he can be, he hounds.
Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
Within my veins, my blood deeply flows.
The toxicity of attraction
Fleeing condemnation, I will go!
Doll house omitting a haunted glow.
My innocence taken now bound.
Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
Freedom fighters tying a tight bow.
Living with your veiled distraction.
Fleeing condemnation, I will go!
Ghastly cold stare will not reach me, no!
Yes, I will be far away and found.
Go now! I shall stay amidst my woe,
Fleeing condemnation, I will go!
Copyright © Rukhsana Afridi | Year Posted 2024
I am haunted by your words, hunted…by their meaning,
Torn to pieces and healed, at once alone, and embraced…
I wish you could see what I see, all this beauty…and heartbreak
I cannot bear them without you, come, and share my soul…
Drink deep of who I am, tear me open… unveil me,
Until I rest naked, in the light of your love…
Copyright © Roy Wilde | Year Posted 2023
Light, defined as electromagnet,
radiation; photon particles
Natural visible light: with intensity, and frequency
Light wavelength spectrum / polarization propagation
People pleasure and preen at the beach with sunny tanning
Sunlight illuminates mountain bike trails for bicycling and trekking
Sunsets have lavender with orange bright beams extending
Solar sunrays light a day of picnic park fun and joyful frolicking
Some of the light spectrum is radio, white, ultraviolet and x-rays
Infrared is only heat visible and gamma-rays are the most powerful
Small lasers are used in disk drives, printers, and fiber-optics
Fiber-optic networks is light fast digital information system
TV plasma, liquid crystal displays, LEDs light-emitting diodes gives visuals
These assist our everyday visual optic neural perceptions
Cars have headlights and ships use fog-lights
Light-towers have flood-lights and we use handy flashlights
Tesla and Edison partook in the light bulb’s invention
Lewis Latimer and Joseph Nichol invented its carbon filament
This did dispel much of the world’s nighttime darkness
Lightning lights to reveal a charge of negative and positive
Colors of violet, blue, green, yellow, orange, red: are in white light
Some colors viewed when seeing a rainbow over a dewy meadow
What can be possibly seen at the other end of a rainbow
This but to note God’s faithful abatement covenant
Starlight is continually being reflected and refracted
Earth and the Heavens is lit up by starry Star Lights
Great Stars round and renowned, in balance and equilibrium
They are fiery fireballs very luminous and bright
Stars dispersing their photon particles at light speed
"Light speed, “299,792,458 meters per second"
Light, is a part of the equation “E=MC squared”
“Energy,” not made, nor annihilated, yet always in flux
"Natures life sustaining and revealing light, "Light Particle"
Copyright © Ronald A. Williams | Year Posted 2017
People treat me like dirt with
Judged envy, but I stand with
Confidence.
People called my beauty
Ugly of jealously, but I still
Stand with Confidence.
People whisper of my features,
But I still stand with confidence.
A parent tells the truth of my physicals.
She made I stand up.
Copyright © Riquetta Brown | Year Posted 2018
The Seven Seas of Rhye
A mythical destination for all those that do wrong.
This write sang to the tune of
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah, Hurrah
USS Linda
She sails the high seas of the soup
HURRAH, HURRAH
Searching for a poetry scoop
O YEAH, O YEAH
Her eyes are keen, for she has been
A long time here, a poetry queen
She sails the, HIGH SEAS, of this poetry soup
The sailors standing on their decks
OUR DECKS, OUR DECKS
With kind words she will save our wrecks
HA HA, OUR WRECKS,
The dented bows, she will raise
With an irony, of praise
Then she’ll cast off, WISE ASS, continue on her treks
She sails along, she shows no fear
NO FEAR, I FEAR
Through stormy waters she will steer
WILL STEER, WILL STEER
She needs no man, with guiding hand
She lets you know, to understand
She makes it, QUITE CLEAR, she needs no buck-in-here
You’ll notice that she sports an A
A NAY, A NAY
Lets hope that B, she stays away
A WAY, A WAY
Cause I don’t know, about you
But I could never, handle two
If she ever, TURNS UP, it’s on your knees and pray
She steams through waters very deep
SO DEEP, SO DEEP
She’ll write you verses, make you weep
YOU WEEP, YOU WEEP
Then she’ll traverse, with laughter verse
Her every word, you will rehearse
And her smoke and, MIRRORS, into your faves you keep
Upon her stern, though don’t ask why
ASK WHY, ASK WHY
Poet Destroyer, six foot high
SIX HIGH, SIX HIGH
Upon the waves, you find you toss
But this one, you must never cross
Or she’ll send you, TO THE, Seven Seas of Rhye
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She might send me, ~~~o~ o ~~~~ o ~~ o ~~~~
~ ~~ ~~~ ~ o ~~ TO THE, ~~~~o ~~~ ~~~~
~~~ ~~~ o ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ Seven Seas of Rhye.
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Hahahahahahaha
Blurbble glurgle
The Seven Seas of Rhye
Fear me you lords and lady preachers
I descend upon your earth from the skies
I command your very souls you unbelievers
Bring before me what is mine
Can you hear me you peers and privy councillors
I stand before you naked to the eyes
I will destroy any man who dares abuse my trust
I swear that you'll be mine
Sister I live and lie for you
Mister do or else die
You are mine I possess you
I belong to you forever
Storm the master marathon I'll fly through
By flash and thunder fire I'll survive
Then I'll defy the laws of nature
And come out alive
Then I'll get you
Begone with you short and shady senators
Give out the good, leave out the bad evil cries
I challenge the mighty titan and his troubadours
And with a smile
I'll take you to the seven seas of Rhye
Written by Freddie Mercury for the song
Seven Seas of Rhye
Copyright © Richard D Seal | Year Posted 2013
once again
i find myself
on the edge
only this time
i’ve used
my last metaphor
Copyright © Richard Colbert | Year Posted 2021
The Price of Freedom
When will it happen again?
Didn't he love me like when we began?
Black eyes and a heart that won’t heal
Holding my own to stop the ordeal.
I knew if I did better, the assaults would cease.
My behavior did nothing to maintain the peace.
Nowhere to run and hide
he will catch me in a stride
Each lesson learned
Left wounds that burned
Don’t talk back
Or everything will go black
Keep your eyes on me
There is nowhere else for you to be.
You are mine to do as I please,
You will put out when I tell you and not be a tease.
You are trapped with no way out
His betrayal and abuse confirmed I deserved it, without a doubt.
Found my inner strength and voice
With my spirit intact, I made the choice.
My freedom would not be easy
The road to get there was not breezy.
I thank the Lord for His divine intervention
I left the abuse behind hanging in suspension.
I’m free at last and my life is a blast.
Copyright © Rev. Catherine Cassell | Year Posted 2023